The AICA Podcast, hosted and initiated by Mihaela Ion, has a new episode on November 21st with Alfredo Cramerotti, a cultural entrepreneur working at the intersection of contemporary art, media and technology and AICA’s Digital Strategies Committee chair.
The podcast is available on:
• AICA’s YouTube account
• AICA’s website
The episode highlights AICA’s initiatives and the crucial role of the digital strategies committee in promoting visibility for these projects, showcasing their efforts to enhance engagement and outreach in the digital space. The episode also highlights a transformative shift in the roles of art criticism and curatorial practices, emphasizing how these positions are increasingly embracing broader engagement with communities. This change fosters deeper connections between artists, audiences, and cultural narratives, allowing for more inclusive dialogues and diverse perspectives, ultimately enriching the art ecosystem.
Alfredo Cramerotti’s curatorial and art criticism works encourages deep audience engagement with contemporary art by challenging established narratives and promoting critical dialogue. His projects focus on the intersection of art and new media, highlighting the significance of context and perception in interpreting artistic expressions. The podcast is focusing on his latest curatorial and collaborative projects.
About the moderator: Mihaela Ion – Ph.D in History. Mihaela Ion is a curator, cultural manager and art researcher based in Bucharest. Since 2021, she is an AICA member. Since 2022, she has been an International Board Member in AICA and part of the Digital Strategies Committee in the same association. In the last 17 years, she presented papers about Communist Art, Cultural Wars, contemporary artworks at the most important conferences organized in Europe. She collaborates with several art galleries and museums in Europe. Her PhD thesis focused on the heritage of communist artworks. She has had the good fortune of being a grant keeper as a cultural manager in London at body>data>space, and in Paris, Sélestat, Strasbourg and Nancy during her Courants du Monde grant from the French Ministry of Culture. In 2010, she cofounded the project Atelierul Magazine (https://www.revista-atelierul.ro/ ) – an international active online and offline platform that creates an intercultural dialogue between the design creators and the public.
About the speaker: A cultural entrepreneur working at the intersection of contemporary art, media and technology, Alfredo Cramerotti is Director of mm:museum [Media Majlis] at Northwestern Qatar. He is President of IKT–International Association Curators of Contemporary Art, Chair of the Digital Strategies Committee of AICA–International Association of Art Critics, and Advisor to the KSA Visual Art Commission, UK Government Art Collection, British Council Visual Arts Acquisition Committee, and the Italian Ministry of Culture.
His main curatorial and advisory projects includes Noor Riyadh, Art Dubai Digital, Lumen Prize and the Maxxi-Bvlgari prize for digital arts (all 2024), four national & collateral pavilions at the Venice Biennale (Wales 2013; Maldives 2013; Mauritius 2015; Pera Fauna Flora–Malaysia 2022); Ideal-Types (Amsterdam 2018, Venice 2019); Sean Scully at the Hong Kong Arts Centre (2018), Shezad Dawood at ISMAR/Querini Stampalia Venice (2017); EXPO VIDEO Chicago (2015); and the biennials Sequences VII Reykjavik, Iceland (2015) and Manifesta 8 Region of Murcia, Spain (2010). He co-directs with Auronda Scalera Multiplicity Art in Digital, a curatorial and publishing initiative fostering the career of artists of underrepresented groups. Alfredo has written extensively on contemporary art and media theory with over 200 texts published on topics such as the intersection of art and technology and the impact of globalization on the art world. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Critical Photography book series by Intellect Books, and the author of five books: The Transparent Layer (forth. 2024), Curating the Image: Notebook for a Visual Journey (2020); Forewords: Hyperimages and Hyperimaging (2018); Unmapping the City: Perspectives of Flatness (2010); and Aesthetic Journalism: How to Inform without Informing (2009).
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